15 Nationally Recognized ‘Holidays’ You Won’t Believe

Happy National Cheesecake Day (July 30) — and check out the other delicious items that are really on the 'calendar,' too

5.) Indigenous Peoples Day.

With political correctness in mind, each year the country celebrates the newly transformed Columbus Day — known now as Indigenous Peoples Day. We no longer celebrate colonialism but instead use this as an opportunity to reveal the struggles indigenous peoples have faced through oppression and genocide.